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Tennis Talk 2018: vol 35 (Peking, Tokyo)
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for the attention of broken drum Player Anett Kontaveit Caroline Wozniacki
1st Serve % 60% (47 of 78) 70% (49 of 70) Aces 2 5 Double Faults 4 1 1st Serve Points Won 53% (25 of 47) 63% (31 of 49) 2nd Serve Points Won 52% (16 of 31) 52% (11 of 21) Break Points Won 50% (3 of 6) 45% (5 of 11) Return Points Won 41% (29 of 71) 50% (41 of 82) Total Points Won 70 83 Odds 2.4 1.571 |
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what a mug Sascha.
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jaziri jaziri .... !!!
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does it to him every time ...
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Two great back-to-back wins for Sabalenka. For differing reasons probably the best wins of her sequence.
She was pretty much beat today and still refused to give in. So often the player who levels the match doesn't take that momentum into the decider. Sabalenka had every excuse to play the tired card. The big question now is what has she got left? She is a much better player than Wang - who seems to have made an amazing recovery in a short time - but it obviously isn't as simple as that. Hopefully, playing the crowd will add an extra bit of focus and energy. The draw has been massively kind to Osaka and that is why she is now a relatively short priced favourite. She needs to mess up badly not to at least make the final. |
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Karatantcheva
1.05 £10 1.07 £386 1.08 £609 1.09 £287 1.11 £1,883 |
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What on earth was that from Osaka?
If you don't want to play then don't play. Looks like she would be better off in a clinic rather than on a tennis court. Contrast her attitude to that of Sabalenka. One a credit to the game, the other a complete joke. |
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Easy win today for Weaponless Wozza or will she t**t around as per usual?
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all of wozgnocchi's weapons on display terday ...
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...and Kyle oozing bile right now ...
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wozgnocchi ... more weapons zan Kim Jung Ung ...
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tof who wins WTA Beijing title on Sunday?
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Halep has been medically cleared to play WTA Finals btw.
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so for a few shots over there no grunting ...
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which is good concentrate on ze tinnis zabal00nka ...
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thats 4 shots no screaming ffs why don't you learn bish ...
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no yelling = winning ... yelling =lo0se ...
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bet zabal00nka also has a tiger tattooed on her pie ...
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Lol what a shot from Wang.
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Sabalenka Not Always GOATing
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goes to show what the forum consider weapons are not got picked off a destroyed ... ball bashing and a lot of noise goes a long way on ze forum innit ... especially if yo has a drum innit ...
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Great match from Wang. Top ten stuff and hopefully she will go on to win. I have backed Osaka but I can't support someone who gets up to that sort of nonsense on a tennis court.
Possibly one match too many for Sabalenka but she was up against a very good standard. Match probably lost when unable to push home the advantage in the first set. People talk about her serve but I think that is one area where she can get significant improvement. It is a weapon but it should be more of a weapon. |
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I know 24 hours in WTA is a long time but hard to believe the odds going forward.
Anything like a reproduction of her last two matches and Wang beats Wozniacki, probably in straight sets. Wang has played two high quality matches against more difficult opponents and seen them off in straight sets. Wozniacki has comfortably beaten two players who were effectively spent. A ball pusher provides a different sort of opposition but Wang should be favourite. I would be surprised if the market doesn't move in that direction as well. Assuming the 'injury' does not resurface the 5/1 outright looks very big as well. If Osaka comes out in sulky face mode again then she goes out. Her semi-final is priced up as if today didn't happen. Can she just flick a switch? At the odds I would far sooner be on Sevastova at 2/1. |
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It's because a lot more than last 24 hours goes into pricing up a tennis match. Wang has looked good, but it will be a totally different match vs Wozniacki from her last two where she will be expected to make all the play and find all the winners.
And Osaka has been a winning machine recently, which is the biggest factor going into the price vs Sevastova. |
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And I agree with you Wang has generally looked better, but the market is already heavily taking this into account. If this match was 2 weeks ago Wozniacki would be like 1.3x rather than 1.7x.
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Whats going on?
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Ridiculous mental midget Sevastova
4-2 40-15* on osaka's serve with osaka looking ready to give up, Sevastova bottles the break points and then gets broken back next game after osaka mto |
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Osaka just broke herself from 40-30 with a df and two muggy errors
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Disappointing again from Osaka. Seemingly devoid of any ideas to reverse a losing position. Very similar to when she was an overwhelming favourite to beat Pliskova. If you are a Slam winner then winning is about winning finals. She couldn't have landed on a better draw. A racehorse with her attributes would have a Timeform squiggle. She wasn't expected in the US Open. That win came pretty much out of nowhere. Since then the expectation level has increased and she has failed to deliver. All very well hammering opponents in early rounds but she has pretty much capitulated under pressure almost looking as if she couldn't care less. The poorest of tennis players can show some fight. She needs to decide whether she thinks sulking and crying her way around tennis courts is the future. The sympathy I felt for her in the US Open has gone. Sadly, she seems to have embraced far too many of the worst aspects of her idol.
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A disnal repeat for Wang of the last semi-final when she ended up retiring. Seemingly no idea of how to cope with a solid ball pusher. The serve, unforced error count and self doubt terrible compared to yesterday. It doesn't augur well for trying to repeat outside of China. Very frustrating for Sabalenka who surely wouldn't have capitulated in that manner. As for Wozniacki a string of very ordinary results and then this?
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Peter Gojowchoke mugging hard
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umpire made a dodgy call that got in sock's head and ruined his momentum
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sock taking an mto now and complaining about how the umpire changed the match
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Sock seething about hawkeye now.
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no handshake for the umpire
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statistical anomaly in Shanghai quallies
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Sock's fall in the rankings in coming weeks is going to be unbelievable, not sure we've ever seen someone fall like this that wasn't due to simply not playing because of injury. He's ranked 17 atm and 159 in the race. With this few weeks left in the season, that's unbelievable. With Paris and WTF points falling off at same time, he's probably going to drop over 100 places in 1 week alone!
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